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A new report by the European Union (EU) on its trade schemes assesses the effects of the three-pronged Generalized System of Preference (GSP), which grants preferential market access in varying degrees to developing countries...

When a country graduates from the LDC category, it no longer benefits from LDC-specific international support measures. The practical implications and significance of that change depend on numerous factors, and thus differ among countries....

by Matthias Bruckner*
When the Maldives approached graduation from the least developed country (LDC) category in the 2000s, the impact of graduation on market access for fish products moved to the forefront of the debate....

Bangladesh’s pharmaceutical industry is unique among least developed countries (LDCs). Driven by active government policies, output has grown a thousand times since 1982, to US$2 billion, or around 1% of gross domestic product, making...

by Matthias Bruckner*
The 11th WTO Ministerial Conference concluded in Buenos Aires on 13 December. Overall, the Ministerial highlighted the current difficulties faced by the multilateral trading system, and multilateralism in general. The WTO Secretary-General...

Business at Thimphu Tech Park has been blooming in the last couple of years. “We struggled to attract businesses for the first few years. There were only two people sitting in this four-story building...

Bangladesh, the largest least developed country (LDC) in terms of population and economic size, looks likely to leave the LDC category by 2024, propelled by better health and education, lower vulnerability and an economic...

The SDGs not only reiterate the promotion of a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the WTO (SDG target 17.10), but also include the target of increasing the exports of...

When you’re next driving the clogged streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, don’t be surprised if you run into an eight-foot high solar-powered traffic robot. Five locally-designed automatons stationed throughout the capital each...